Guides: Transportation Engineering: Transportation Equity

Books and Book Chapters

Measuring Transport Equity by Karen Lucas
ISBN: 9780128148181
Publication Date: 2019
Bringing together the most up-to-date perspectives and practical approaches for assessing transportation equity in relation to accessibility, environmental impacts, health, and wellbeing, the book sets standards for conducting social impact analyses in transport planning.
Sustainable Transportation Planning by Jeffrey Tumlin
Call Number: HE 151 .T86 2012
Publication Date: 2012\
Offers detailed guidance on how to improve and balance different modes of transportation to help cities achieve economic development, social equity, and ecological sustainability goals.
Highway Robbery by Robert D. Bullard; Angel O. Torres
Call Number: HE 206.2 .H54 2004
Drawing on legal precedents, voices from the grassroots, and academic research, Highway Robbery bridges intellectual disciplines and activist movements by linking the national inequalities in transportation to larger economic, health, environmental justice, and quality of life issues.
Equity, Growth, and Community by Chris Benner; Manuel Pastor
ISBN: 9780520960046
Publication Date: 2015-10-09
Includes information on how transportation spending and choices in in Charlotte, Silicon Valley, Salt Lake City, and Seattle and how they address the challenges of economic restructuring and social divides.
Transportation Asset Management by Zongzhi Li
ISBN: 9781138748217
Includes information on transportation's environmental impact analysis, enhancing accessibility to social services, and providing transportation and opportunities to disadvantaged groups
Running on Empty by Karen Lucas (Editor)
Call Number: HE 243 .R86 2004
ISBN: 1861345704
Examines how past failures to address fundamental inequalities in the ability of low-income households to access adequate transport has undermined effective delivery of welfare policies in the US and UK and describes the new policies and initiatives being developed to address this oversight.
Policy, Planning, and People by Naomi Carmon
ISBN: 9780812222395
Publication Date: 2013
Includes chapter: Urban Transportation and Social Equity; Transportation-Planning Paradigms that Impede Policy Reform
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes by Melody L. Hoffmann
ISBN: 0803288220
Publication Date: 2016
Examines how the popularity of urban bicycling is trailed by systemic issues of racism, classism, and displacement while also giving positive examples of people trying to bring their community together through bicycling.
Three Revolutions by Daniel Sperling
ISBN: 9781610919050
Publication Date: 2018
Provides research-based insights on potential public benefits and impacts of shared mobility services, automated vehicles, and electric vehicles, including more transportation choices, greater affordability and accessibility, and healthier, more livable cities.
Advancing Equity Planning Now by Norman Krumholz); Kathryn Wertheim Hexter
ISBN: 9781501730399
Publication Date: 2019
Includes information on transportation planning, transit-oriented development, and promoting a shift in policy from mobility to accessibility.
Growing Smarter (eBook) by Robert D. Bullard
ISBN: 9780262026109
Publication Date: 2007
Includes chapters on Environmental Justice and Transportation Equity, Clean and Just Transportation in Northern Manhattan, and Linking Transportation Equity and Environmental Justice with Smart Growth.
Overground Railroad by Candacy Taylor
Call Number: E 185.61 .T23 2020
ISBN: 9781419738173
Publication Date: 2020
The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists published from 1936-1966. .
Watching the Traffic Go By by Paul Mason Fotsch
Call Number: TA 1023 .F68 2006
Combining an exploration of planning documents, sociological studies, and popular culture, Paul Fotsch shows how city planners used new transportation technologies to foster stability for business and the white middle class while excluding women and the poor, especially Africa Americans, by isolating them in homes and urban ghettoes.
The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City by Eric Avila
ISBN: 1452942897
The U.S. interstate highway system cut through and destroyed countless communities. This book tells of a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.

Websites

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), 267
In 1991, Congress passed the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), which implemented dramatic changes. The law gave metropolitan regions great flexibility in how they spend transportation dollars while also mandating more transparency and accountability. It established stronger rules for public participation and required consideration of social issues, thus providing an opening to transportation decision making. President Clinton’s Executive Order 12898 (1994) also ordered that federal agencies not adversely impact minority or low-income communities. The first decade of the new millennium saw the rise in values associated with community health, food systems, and designs to encourage physical activity (Dill 2009, Kaufman 2004)

Transportation, Race, and Equity: A SYllabi Resource List for Faculty
A list of resources and readings that faculty can use in syllabi on racial equity in transportation planning and engineering (compiled by Jennifer Dill, Kendra Levine and Jesus Barajas)

Racial Issues in the Automobile Industry

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford (eBook) by Beth Tompkins Bates
In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men who migrated to Detroit from the South in the hope of gaining greater economic security. As they realized that Ford's anti-union "American Plan" did not allow them full access to the American Dream, they pursued a broad activist agenda and played a pivotal role in the United Auto Workers' challenge to Ford's interests.
Race Against Liberalism (eBook) by David M. Lewis-Colman
ISBN: 9780252033001
Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit examines how black workers' activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class.

White Papers

We Can Get There From Here: New Perspectives on Transportation Equity
(from the UC Davis: National Center For Sustainable Transportation) "The purpose of this white paper is to provide an overview, synthesis, and critical assessment of academic research and transportation planning practice in order to provide a shared foundation for the many parties working toward equitable transportation systems. "
Remixing Innovation for Mobility Justice
(from TransForm and Remix) "Includes case studies and giudance from industry experts on how to integrate racial and social justice in transportation planning"

Urban Institute Publications

The Urban Institute is a think-tank that carries out economic and social policy research. It is funded through government contracts, foundations, and private donors.

What if Cities Combined Car-based Solutions with Transit to Improve Access to Opportunity?